Samuel Morse was a famous mathematician. He made the machine known as morse code. He was 67 when Samuel Morse died but when samuel morse died he was honored by thousands. Samuel Morse was a son to a family of 12 people. He was the only one to go to college he was accepted at Yale Private University. Yale was established in 1745 by ten men, it still runs today. In Samuel Morse's early life he was an american painter. In his early life his dad was a geographer and a famous priest. His mom was a stay at home mom. He was born 1791 and died in 1872. He married his wife Lucretia Walker. After she died Samuel Morse started creating morse code.It took Samuel 10 years to invent morse code. When he showed it to the world he was a world famous …show more content…
He also used math to make the morse code. The machine was called a telegraph, which used a mathematical sequence to transmit messages faster, and across greater distances. The name of the mathematical sequence was Morse Code, which was named it’s inventor Samuel Morse. Morse Code uses short and long signals to create alphabetical messages, or words, to transmit messages. During Morse’s time, this benefitted people by allowing messages to travel faster than the old fashioned of horse and rider. Morse code nowadays is used mainly by military and military accomplices morse code is very popular in the american economy the morse code turned out to help produce TV, internet and radios that's crazy that's the way we use morse code and that is the way we benefit from …show more content…
Then he worked as a clerk in boston then he left and went to england to study art with american poet washington allston. During the war between britain and the united states. Then he left england to go to new york then he settled in new york. He painted for the rest of his life he painted some of the finest painting in the world until he died in 1872 in new york. But a lot of people desired his artwork . Samuel Morse was the romantic type so he usually painted romantic paintings .He also had tastes in european art . When samuel morse was still alive he saw changes in the morse code. But after he died in 1872 his fame as the telegraph inventor obscured by the invention. Of the telephone,radio and television and internet. While his reputation as a painter. Has enlarged he did not want to remembered as a portrait painter .But his deep emotional portraits samuel morse was a loved son a brother.And a world changer for his actions . When he died not a lot of people cared except for his family and friends.even though he shaped the world in a way that we still use today. The reason samuel morse invented morse code Developed in the 1830s and 1840s by Samuel Morse(1791-1872) and other inventors, the telegraph revolutionized long-distance communication. It worked by transmitting electrical signals over a wire laid between stations. Although Jedidiah Morse did not change Samuel's political views, he continued as an influence. Critics believe
Born in January of 1737, John Hancock grew up to become a prominent founding father and important Patriot in American history. Filling many roles throughout his life, John Hancock shaped the course of the Revolution by standing out against the British rule. Originally a merchant and statesmen, Hancock became the president of the Second Continental Congress and helped convince all thirteen colonies to unite for their independence (History). Hancock stood for freedom in a time in which many leaders still hesitated to declare independence, and his influence convinced many colonists to unite against tyranny and still inspires many people today. To play such a significant role in the history of America, however, Hancock grew from experiences long
...pate in a society because of race and gender. While the Disquisition of Government, is seen as a great work in American politics, his views, political theory and ideology are off base to certain segments of the American population, and his thoughts would help to maintain slavery.
Eli Whitney played an important role during the industrial revolution, and through some challenges, Whitney was able to create one of the greatest innovations of the eighteenth century. Eli Whitney was born during the revolutionary war in 1765, and has had an interest in machines and technology as an early teen. Some of the challenges he faced occurred before Whitney even started building his famous cotton gin. Whitney attended the prestigious Yale University in his twenties, and when graduating at age 27, he was broke. Eli Whitney was able to turn all of his challenges into later accomplishments by staying determined and continuing with his technological advances of creating the cotton gin and later the creation of interchangeable parts with firearms.
He ended up opening a painting shop near the Delaware River. He met Ben Franklin in Philadelphia. Franklin took Fulton up as a student and helped him lodge. Fulton found friends who built their own canals. He had met many great experimenters such as the earl of Stanhope.
William Bradford was born in 1590. He was a very smart child, and taught himself how to several languages. He also studied the bible quite frequently. When he turned 18, he was in a separatist group and they broke away from the church. They went to Holland so they wouldn't be killed. He then was one of the members on the Mayflower heading to America. He made it there in December 1620.
The urgency of communication was never much felt until the beginning and use of telegraphy. It was much easier to transmit and receive messages over long distances that no longer needed physical transport of letters.
He published Poor Richard’s Almanac at the end of 1732, which was a huge success. The almanac contained weather, poetry, advice, recipes, astronomical information, and much more; he continued to publish it for 25 years. He organized the Union Fire Company to protect against dangerous fire hazards. He also innovated with the invention of the Franklin stove, which was a stove that provided more heat with less fuel. “By 1748, the 42-year-old Ben had become one of the richest men in Pennsylvania. He turned his business over to a partner to give him more time to conduct scientific experiments.” (Paragraph 12) He moved into a new house and acquired slaves to work around the house, but his views on slavery evolved to where he considered it evil, and then freed his slaves in the 1760s. He joined the Pennsylvania militia at age 42. His interest in electricity grew and he began experimenting on electricity. He conducted experiments and recorded them into a book called “Experiments and Observations on Electricity.” He is most famous for his kite-key experiment in 1752 to prove there was electricity in light. He is also credited to the invention of bifocal glasses, the rocking chair, and the American penny. “His self-education earned him honorary degrees from Harvard, Yale, England’s Oxford University and Scotland’s University of St. Andrews in
For many years he was the British postmaster for the colonies, which enabled him to set up the first national communications network. He was active in community affairs, colonial and state politics, as well as national and international affairs. From 1785 to 1788, he served as governor of Pennsylvania. Toward the end of his life, he freed his own slaves and became one of the most prominent
Soon Franklin had ambitions to write and by age 16 he had written a series of letters by an imaginary author. The letters were printed in the New England Courant, which was published by his brother. Still pursuing his writing career, he ran away to Philadelphia and continued working in the printing business. He arrived in 1725 with one Dutch dollar and one copper shilling. By 1729, he had bought and published The Pennsylvania Gazette. He then married his landlady’s daughter, Deborah Reed. In the next seventeen years Franklin had three children, published the first Poor Richards Almanac, and invented the Pennsylvania fireplace, amo...
He found a job as an office boy for two lawyers and later an apprentice as a printer for a local newspaper, “Patriot”. There he learned many useful things like how to use the printing press and typesetting. In 1833, his family moved back to Long Island and there he continued to work for several newspapers. In 1836, at the age of 17, he began his career as teacher but stopped when he turned to journalism as a full-time career. He founded a weekly new...
and “What did he like to do when he wasn’t working?” Basically, Carver was an African-American slave born at the end of the Civil War that was able to overcome many obstacles and become a famous scientist and inventor. George Washington Carver didn’t have that good of a childhood, because he was born a sick, weak baby and a slave in Missouri in 1864. One night there was a raiding party that took George and his mother and though his mother never came back, he was eventually returned to the Carvers.
Growing up as a child living with his deaf mom, Eliza, Alexander Graham Bell sympathized with the hearing impaired and later devoted his life to teaching speech and liberating deaf children. In 1870, Bell and his family moved to Canada where Melville taught his son Visible Speech and setup teaching jobs for him around New England. One year later Alexander Graham Bell moved to Boston, which was a hotspot for commercial, education, and scientific activity. He began writing articles on deaf education and teaching scientific lectures (Grosvenor, Wesson). When Bell moved to Boston he was able to spread the teaching of Visible Speech. He pursued his career in teaching the hearing impaired where technology and inventions were flourishing. “It makes my very heart ache to see the difficulties the little children have to contend with on account of the prejudice of their teachers. You know that here all communication is strictly with the mouth… and just fancy little children who have no idea of speech being made dependent on lip-reading for almost every idea that enters their heads. Of course their mental development is slow. It is a wonder to me they progress at all ” (Letter to Melville and Eliza, MS,). Alexander Graham Bell began teaching at Clarke School for the Deaf in Northampton, Massachusetts where he used his playful nature and knowledge in Visible Speech to educate the deaf children. He devoted his life and career to helping making a difference in the lives of deaf children and using new, innovative techniques to make their lives easier. As people began to realize Alexander Graham Bell’s extreme talents, he was hired to teach private lessons with kids especially struggling with reading, writing, and speech. Thomas Sanders, a Salem...
Who was Benjamin Franklin and what accomplishments did he make that affects us today? Benjamin Franklin was born in Boston, Massachusetts, January 17, 1790. Benjamin Franklin “was the tenth son of soap maker, Josiah Franklin. Benjamin’s mother was Abiah Folger, the second wife of Josiah” (Electric). He became a diplomat, scientist, author and also a philosopher. Benjamin Franklin developed into a great man and became known as one of the founders of the fathers of the Declaration of the Independence; thus known as one of the many accomplishments he made throughout his lifetime. Research, documentaries and an autobiography written by Benjamin Franklin himself detail all his accomplishments. An amazing man, Ben Franklin became to be so far ahead of his time to create the many inventions he developed within his life time. Many historians characterize him as a genius as well as a national icon. One of Benjamin Franklin’s successfully revolutionized the newspaper business and printing trade.
On February 11th, 1847 in some hospital in Milan, Ohio, a new inventor was born. His parents, Samuel and Nancy, named this inventor Thomas Alva Edison. He was the seventh child. In his early life he set up a laboratory in the cellar of his house. Young Thomas thought that if given enough gas to a person, that person would float. That turned out to be a wrong hypothesis because when he tried this experiment on his friend, his friend got sick and his laboratory was closed by his parents. At the age of twelve Edison became a newsboy and a candy butcher on the Grand trunk Railway. When he fifteen he published his first newspaper, "The Weekly Herald", on a moving train. His railroad was quickly finished when his laboratory caught on fire in one of the boxcars. Fortunately for him he saved the son J. U. Mackenzie from a certain death in a train accident. The father of the boy he saved was the station agent at Mount Clemens, and Mr. Mackenzie taught Edison telegraphy.
Benjamin Franklin was a brilliant scientist who invented many useful things. Although throughout his experiments and inventions, he was curious about one special thing. "He was so curious in fact that his experiments toward electricity took up over four years of his life, and devoured over one half of his of profits of his printing business" (Fleming 4). After many trials and experiments, he discovered this power source while flying a kite during a lightning storm. "Through his loses he turned this new born curiosity into a full fledged branch of science." (Fleming 4) His findings led to many other scientists to test on this phenomenon and invent many practical and useful things that led to the expansion of human knowledge. Many of these inventions were used to better everyday human life. l